A California federal judge Friday denied a group of current and former Meta employees' bid to swiftly block the company from disturbing the benefits of certain employees it allegedly selected for termination using artificial intelligence, but requested more information on how Meta selected four employees on company-sponsored employment visas.
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TOP NEWS

Meta Avoids Workers' Bid To Block Allegedly AI-Tainted Cuts

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge Friday denied a group of current and former Meta employees' bid to swiftly block the company from disturbing the benefits of certain employees it allegedly selected for termination using artificial intelligence, but requested more information on how Meta selected four employees on company-sponsored employment visas.

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7th Circ. Admonishes Atty Over 'Astonishing' Bogus Citations

By Christine DeRosa

The Seventh Circuit has admonished but declined to sanction an attorney for a brief that included what a judge called "an astonishing number of erroneous and even hallucinated citations."

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States Ask To Join Fight Against DOD Wind Project Blockage

By Nadia Dreid

Nearly 20 states have told an Oregon federal judge they want in on a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's decision to block land-based wind projects in the U.S. from moving forward.

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Analysis

States Stepping Up Merger Work In First Half Of 2026

By Matthew Perlman

Federal enforcers reached a number of merger settlements in the first half of 2026, while state attorneys general stepped up their independent enforcement efforts, taking on Nexstar's planned purchase of rival broadcaster Tegna and Paramount's deal for Warner Bros. Discovery.

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AGs Have 'Significant Concerns' With DOJ's Live Nation Deal

By Bryan Koenig

A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general asked a New York federal judge Thursday for a peek into the negotiations behind the Justice Department's controversial midtrial settlement with Live Nation, voicing concerns the deal isn't in the public interest and saying they need details as they seek a breakup.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Md. Judge Stays Reforms Set To Shrink ACA Coverage Pool

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Maryland federal judge stayed a set of Affordable Care Act marketplace reforms that were set to take effect Monday, finding several cities and groups representing doctors and small businesses were likely to succeed in their Administrative Procedure Act challenge against them.

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LITIGATION

Analysis

Top Transportation Rulings: Midyear 2026 Report

By Linda Chiem

U.S. Supreme Court rulings determining that freight brokers can face state-based negligence lawsuits and that last-mile drivers can also be exempt from arbitration are among the biggest court decisions of the first half of 2026 affecting the transportation industry. Here, Law360 highlights a few of the biggest transportation-related rulings of 2026 so far.

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Analysis

The Biggest Trade Secret Rulings Of 2026: A Midyear Report

By Ivan Moreno

The Federal Circuit issued two of the year's most consequential trade secret rulings within days of each other, wiping out Insulet's victory in a wearable insulin patch pump case while reopening a software company's path to potentially larger damages in a dispute with Ford Motor Co. Here, Law360 highlights the biggest trade secret decisions so far this year.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How Competitive Is Your Compensation? Take Our Survey

Is your compensation keeping pace with the rate of inflation? Do you know what your colleagues made last year? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's Law Firm Compensation Survey.

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DOJ Unveils Law Firm Subpoenas In ABA Docs Bid Fight

By Ryan Boysen, Rae Ann Varona, Alison Knezevich, Daniel Moritz-Rabson and Aebra Coe

The BigLaw firms that cut deals with the Trump administration last year to skirt punitive executive orders are now grappling with subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking deal-related communications and depositions of the firms' managing partners or chairs, according to Friday court filings.

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K&L Gates Cuts Nonattorney Staff By 10% After Review

By Tracey Read

K&L Gates LLP has cut its nonattorney and business support staff by 10% following a monthslong review of its structure, the firm told Law360 Pulse Friday.

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Analysis

Upon Review: The 2026 World Cup's Biggest Legal Stories

By Alex Lawson

The grandest iteration of the World Cup to date unsurprisingly raised new legal and regulatory disputes, including immigration issues and the White House's intervention in a player disciplinary proceeding. Here, Law360 digs into the legal questions arising from the tournament.

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Ashurst Perkins Gets Trial Date Pushed In Malpractice Case

By Rachel Riley

A Washington state judge granted Ashurst Perkins Coie's bid to postpone the trial date in a lawsuit accusing the firm's predecessor of making significant mistakes while representing a Middle Eastern screw and nail manufacturer in regulatory proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce, calling the case "complex" on Friday.

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Judge Warns Gov't Over Apparent AI-Hallucinated Citation

By Courtney Bublé

A federal judge in Michigan, appointed by President Donald Trump, called out the government for its apparent use of artificial intelligence to cite "nonexistent case law."

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Public Defenders Go On Strike In New York City

By Andrea Keckley

Hundreds of public defenders and social workers in Brooklyn and Queens have gone on strike, with the possibility of more walkouts to come as legal aid providers continue to negotiate with their unions.

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Feature

How A 'Revolutionary' Charlotte Courtroom Advances Justice

By Hayley Fowler

In the second of a two-part series on the Virginia Revival Courtroom in the Charlotte federal courthouse, judges, architects and a trial consultant explain the strategy behind designing a space they see as more conducive to justice.

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2nd Circ. Backs Public Defender's Firing For Computer Misuse

By Andrea Keckley

The Second Circuit has backed a district court's dismissal of a former public defender's lawsuit against Oneida County, New York, for firing him after he used his work computer to work on his private practice on county time, agreeing that the county did not violate his privacy rights or breach their contract.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering allowing electronic delivery to be the default method for sending investors information, and a panel of investor activists said the 2026 proxy season was shaped by regulators who seem to let public companies behave more like private ones. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Snapchat and Dolby press on with a fresh infringement claim in their ongoing patent battle, The Telegraph face an intellectual property claim by a photo archive, a group of international human rights barristers and chambers sued, and oil business Equinor embroiled in a contract dispute with BP after recently acquiring full ownership in their offshore project. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit determined that a lower court properly found that Nielsen cannot condition media company Cumulus' access to national radio ratings data on buying its local offerings.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Advokatfirmaet Selmer AS

Ahmad Zavitsanos

Arnold & Porter

Ashurst LLP

Ashurst Perkins

Axinn

Baker McKenzie

Bird & Bird

Boies Schiller

Boyes Turner

Burness Paull

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Clarke Willmott

Clifford Chance

Clyde & Co

Cravath Swaine

Curtis Mallet-Prevost

DLA Piper

DMH Stallard

Davis Wright Tremaine

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dentons

Eversheds Sutherland

Freshfields

Fried Frank

Gibson Dunn

Gunster Yoakley

Hall Estill

Haynes Boone

Herrick Feinstein

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hunton Andrews

Jenner & Block

Joelson JD LLP

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Keller Postman

Kesselman Brantly

Kirkland & Ellis

Kobre & Kim

Latham & Watkins

Lumen Law Center

McNaul Ebel

Meritz Reddy

Mishcon de Reya

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Murphy & King

Nabarro LLP

Olshan Frome

Orrick Herrington

Paul Weiss

Quinn Emanuel

Reddy Neumann

Reed Smith

Simmons & Simmons

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Sive Paget

Skadden Arps

Sullivan & Cromwell

Sullivan & Worcester

Susman Godfrey

TLT LLP

Troutman

Trowers & Hamlins

Varnum LLP

Vinson & Elkins

Wachtell Lipton

Wedlake Bell

Weightmans LLP

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Winston Taylor

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abbott Laboratories

Access Advance LLC

Affordable Care LLC

Air Liquide

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Property Casualty Insurance Association

American Tort Reform Association

Amsurg Corp.

Anywhere Real Estate Inc.

Appian Corp.

Apple Inc.

Arctic Glacier Inc.

Ascension Health Inc.

Banco Sabadell SA

Benefit Street Partners Ltd.

Boston Scientific Corp.

Brooklyn Defender Services

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

CDI Corporation

CLEAResult Consulting Inc.

CaixaBank SA

Campaign Legal Center

Compass Inc.

Compass Minerals International, Inc.

Court of Arbitration for Sport

Cumulus Media Inc.

Delivery Hero

Democracy Forward Foundation

Deutsche Bank AG

Dolby Laboratories Inc.

Equinor ASA

Federation Internationale de Football Association

Five Below Inc.

Flowers Foods Inc.

Ford Motor Co.

Fort Point Capital

Groupe PSA

Grupo Antolin SA

Hannaford Brothers Co.

Henkel Corp.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Illumina Inc.

Instagram Inc.

Insulet Corp.

Insulet Corporation

Iovance Biotherapeutics Inc.

JELD-WEN Inc.

Juniper Networks Inc.

Kraft Group LLC

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

MTX Group

Macquarie Group Ltd.

Major League Soccer LLC

Marriott International Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Michigan Immigrant Rights Center

Micron Technology Inc.

Momentus Inc.

National Westminster Bank PLC

Netflix Inc.

Netlist Inc.

New England Patriots LP

New York Post

Nexstar Media Group Inc.

Nielsen Holdings PLC

Norfolk Southern Corp.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Pegasystems Inc.

RELX PLC

Reddy Ice Holdings Inc.

Salesforce.com Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Sandoz International GmbH

Simon & Schuster LLC

Skydance Media LLC

Snap Inc.

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

Southwest Airlines Co.

Steves & Sons Inc.

StubHub Inc.

Syntel, Inc.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

Tegna Inc.

Teleperformance SA

Tesla Inc.

The DIRECTV Group Inc.

The New York Times Co.

The Reynolds and Reynolds Co.

TriZetto Corp.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Uber Technologies Inc.

United Auto Workers

Vulcan Materials Co.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Companies House

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

Pima County, Arizona

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

Unified Patent Court